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Jan 16, 2013

A friend of mine asked me recently how to handle a situation with a dot (.) in the path for an MVC project. The path looked something like this: http://domain.com/aspnet/CLR4.0 The MVC routes didn’t work for this path and...

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New Year, New Job, New Challenges

Jan 14, 2013

As we leave 2012 behind us and turn our attention to 2013, the time has come for me to share some exciting personal news. After 10 years at Microsoft I have recently decided to leave the company to pursue other career opportunities...

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Monitor MS SMTP queue from ASP.Net

Jan 11, 2013

I came across a situation today where I needed to monitor the number of files in the Microsoft SMTP queue from a web page. While there are numerous ways I considered approaching this, I wanted it to be simple, portable, and easy...

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For your OSS image building and sharing pleasure … meet VM Depot from MS Open Tech

Jan 09, 2013

By Gianugo Rabellino Senior Director Open Source Communities Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. As I write this, I’m exploring the public preview of VM Depot , a new service from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. VM Depot...

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Serving files from a remote server in IIS 7

Jan 08, 2013

There is a question that I have been seeing more of in recent weeks. While it comes in different varieties, the essence of it has to do with having your files located on a server or device other than the IIS web server. One variety...

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Linking spam sent through shared IIS SMTP server to a user

Jan 08, 2013

Microsoft’s IIS SMTP service won’t log usernames even when SMTP-AUTH is enabled and clients are all authenticating. So, what happens if someone starts abusing the SMTP service (or you perhaps have a runaway process...

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Using a Data Collector to Troubleshoot Server Performance

Jan 07, 2013

Here's a recent blog post I did on using a Performance Monitor data collector to troubleshoot server performance. http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/peter/how-to-use-a-data-collector-to-troubleshoot-server-performance/

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IIS Community Newsletter December 2012 edition published

Dec 31, 2012

http://www.iisnewsletter.com/archive/december2012.html is available. Enjoy Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP – IIS

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Using Classic ASP and URL Rewrite for Dynamic SEO Functionality

Dec 31, 2012

I had another interesting situation present itself recently that I thought would make a good blog: how to use Classic ASP with the IIS URL Rewrite module to dynamically generate Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml files. Overview Here...

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Upgrading a Baby Computer

Dec 28, 2012

I'd like to take a brief departure from my normal series of IIS-related blogs and talk about something very near and dear to the hearts of many geeks - ripping a computer apart and upgrading its various hardware components just...

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Professional Microsoft IIS 8

Dec 28, 2012

I had the pleasure of being the technical editor for http://amzn.to/Vcwwum This book is a must have for an IIS 8 administrator. It’s chalked full of information not detailed as complete anywhere else I know of. I’d highly recommend...

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Scaling up IIS Server

Dec 21, 2012

When it comes to the scalability of web servers, first thing customers think about is scale out. While scale out is great option, there are many scenarios which can benefit from scale up. In Windows Server 2012, IIS team has done...

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